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Are You On A Diet – That Doesn’t Make Any Sense!

Curt Nelson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:15:36 +0000

Here is what a DIET really is and how we feel when we go on them. Which is why they don’t work! We feel like were DIEing.

Depressed
Insecurity
Emotional
Trauma

To me a Diet is something that we think we have to struggle with in order to look good. Restrict eating certain foods all the time and only sticking to the plan. Trying to stick to a “hardcore diet” for 8 weeks, 12 weeks, is the surest way to failure.

What happens when you go off the diet, you’ll go right back where you started. This article is meant for anyone struggling and thinking they have to find and stick to a “hardcore diet”, I’m here to tell you that’s complete B.S.

I’m not just talking to fat people either. I’m talking to anyone who wants a fit body.

Diets are short term and cannot be handled long term. They create more harm than good. Depending on what type of diet your on….

Most people think they have to go on a diet to lose weight… this is only partially true! Yet its still yet all WRONG!

If your eating right in the first place you don’t need to go on a DIET, you just need to adjust your calories to lose weight. That and working out with high intensity.

DIETS piss me off for multiple reasons:

It shows that the person is thinking “short term”
It assumes we must be eating crap the rest of the time
They make us go insane…
Hard to be consistent
We think will power is going to help us…
We finally crack and can’t handle it and give up the diet for good

Arrrgggghhhh…. I have to go on a diet. Bullshit!

A diet is a “diet”, but the diet you should be on isn’t really a diet its the way you should be eating in the first place. Does that make sense…?

What am I talking about?

Unless your a really specific and special “health case”, you don’t need to be on any of these crap diets:

Atkins Diet
South Beach Diet
The Bible Diet
Protein Power Diet
Richard Simmons Diet
Nutrisystem Diet
The Zone Diet
Weight Watchers Diet
Medifast 1 Diet
Special K Diet
Jenny Craig Diet
100 Calorie Diet
Acai Berry Diet
Food Pyramid Diet

Yes we now live in a society where we have food shipped to us because were to lazy to prepare our own fresh food.

What Should I Eat Today – All you have to do is eat whole foods:

Meats
Vegetables
Fruits
Nuts and Seeds
Minimize Sugar Intake
Try to eat low glycemic foods most of the time (5-6 days out of the week)
Install a cheat day once a week
Eat calories according to a metabolic rate calculator

I use to be 180 lbs at 6 ‘ (currently I’m 165 lbs testing an experiment). So, to maintain my current weight at 180 lbs, I need roughly 2,700 calories per day. Now if I wanted to lose weight I would go on a 500 calorie deficit. To gain weight I would increase calories by 500.

The only thing that even resembles close to anything of a diet for me is the Blood Type Diet. While I don’t always follow it 100%, I use it as a guide.

What are the common foods that I eat:

Ezekiel Breads
Fruits – Apple, Lemons, Oranges, Pears, Bananas and Berries
Greens – lots of Spinach
Eggs
1% Cottage Cheese
Cheese
Brown Cow Raspberry and Vanilla Yogurt
Lean Meats – sometimes Chicken
Long Grain Brown Rice
Bobs Red Mill – Brown Rice Farina – Creamy Rice Hot Cereal
Regular Oatmeal and Steel Cut Oats ( take too long to cook)
Almonds, Pecans, and Walnuts
Navy Beans and Red Beans
Rice Cakes
Pamela’s Pancake Mix – Occasionally have pancakes
I have very little of juices, when I do I add at least 50% water to it
Drink tea from time to time, Licorice Tea and Echinacea (CHENCH-NEA)
Junk food I eat maybe once a week, pizza of course, chocolate, chips and ice-cream
Also stopped drinking MILK
I Never eat fast food, if I do its Subway
I Never drink pop
I Don’t eat or drink anything with high fructose corn syrup
Never really eat much stuff that’s in a box or packaged

Now, that doesn’t seem like a DIET, does it…? I eat pretty much anything I want, within reason. I never really have cravings for certain junk foods all the time, OK maybe chocolate sometimes.

So eliminate all those crap diets, you don’t need them. Maybe only unless you have a “special health case”. Their created strictly for the creator of the diet to make money, and brainwash people.

If you have any questions about Diets please leave your comments. If your on a specific diet, I’d be interested in hearing about it and how its going for you…

PROOF: High Intensity Interval Training vs. Long Slow Boring Low Intensity Endurance Training

Curt Nelson — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:16:28 +0000

Whether your a marathon runner, ultra marathoner, cyclist, mountain biker, swimmer, adventure racer, triathlete, or just someone who wants a kickass body with supreme fitness, this article is all about becoming more versatile in your fitness training by doing Cross Training with high intensity interval training instead of endurance training.

Here are the Benefits of doing High Intensity Interval Training ( HIIT ) with Cross Training

You’ll save more time and won’t have to workout as long as you use to

Increase in Cardiovascular Function

Have a better physique, decreased body fat, increase in muscle mass

Increase In Your Strength, Power and Speed

Less chance of injury from over training

Variation makes your workouts less boring

If your serious about improving your fitness and results within your long distance sport you should follow the Crossfit Endurance website and start doing their workouts. Crossfit Endurance is set up specifically for endurance athletes utilizing the Crossfit principles.

On to the PROOF !

There are multiple reasons and side effects from slow boring low intensity endurance training. This applies to you if you consistently do only one form of training or a combination of things where you don’t do anything at high intensity.

Example: My cousin is a marathon runner. He recently ran in the Boston Marathon. He use to train just by running for 8 miles at a time for 4 days a week and never changing his pace. No weight training, no crossfit endurance training, just running.

If your currently still training like this STOP IT right now!

So, lets look at several examples that relate to body structure, performance, and risks of endurance training.

NOTE : 99% of everything you do will be training. Races and Competitions are just roughly 1% of the actual load or cumulative effects on your body. So, “During your training” stop doing the long slow and boring low intensity endurance training ALL THE TIME, mix it up.

1. Look at the difference between a marathon runner compared to a Sprinter. Are their body shapes like this for a specific reason, YES. You decide which one you want to be…

2. Have you ever you heard of the “Jim Fixx Phenomenon”, a popular fitness guru of the 70s…? He claimed that the secret to heart health and long life was endurance running, up until he died of a heart attack while running! This may or may not be a special case as many long distance runners in marathons die every year.

Maybe they all have some type of pre disposition to do with their heart, lifestyle choices or maybe its from the running…?

3. A few years ago, Harvard researchers published the Harvard Health Professionals Study. After studying over 7,000 people they found that they key to preventing heart disease is INTENSITY, not long duration exercise. Can’t Find this article, can anyone find this…

4. Did you know your lung power is the best predictor of longevity? But your lungs shrink with age. Every year your lung cells die off faster than your body can replace them. And if you practice aerobics or cardio you’re making your lungs even smaller and weaker, according to Dr. Al Sears, creator of the 12 minute Pace Program.

5. Long-distance running shrinks your lungs and downsizes your heart’s output. Nature designed your body to adapt to whatever environment it encounters. If you ask it to run long distances repeatedly and routinely, it will adapt to meet the challenge more effectively. When you run long distances like in a marathon you’re actually training your heart to get weaker. Read This –> Marathon Kills 3 More in 16 Minutes

6. Can you name any animal that runs for an hour or more 4 days a week for 10 years or more…

7. Six Minutes of Exercise A Week is As Good As Six Hours – I wouldn’t do just 6 minutes of exercise a week. While this article does prove a point, you should do at least 3-4 workout days a week. With 1-2 being an intense interval training day at no more than 30 minutes and the other 2 days, resistance free weight training, and crossfit or cross fit endurance training.

If your an endurance athlete you may want to just follow the Crossfit Endurance Workouts.

8. Another great source of information to read on high intensity interval training vs. endurance training

The are plenty of academic articles/journals that have plenty of research behind this. They are mostly hard to read or understand for most but if your seeking more info contact me and I’ll give you some more articles.

You may be thinking, isn’t bodybuilding bad for you… no not really. Not unless you use steroids and massive supplements you don’t need. It’s also not a smart way to exercise because most bodybuilders rely on isolation training a certain body part at one time. Which is almost as stupid as doing crunches to try and get abs.

Depending on the type of energy system your training for you should have specific intervals you do in your training depending on your sport. Check out the What is Fitness Article by Crossfit for this.

If running makes you feel good just being outside, continue to do it. But don’t just run slow and steady. Do running intervals or biking intervals. Just by upping the intensity you’ll get way more benefit out of running and it will take less time.